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And now, the best and worst of WCW Halloween Havoc, originally aired on October 26, 1997. Hall Hav what she’s having.

Please do a follow-up on the end. I watched it last night in anticipation of this article, and it’s the weirdest.
The dude looks in-shape enough to be a wrestler, but clearly isn’t since Fake Sting #8 and Hogan legit beat him up while Savage tries to pretend his knees work.
But then why did the primary ring-side cam broadcast him jumping the rail and climbing the cage, and then the PPV just goes to credits mid-sentence during Schiavone realizing it is a fan.
It’s the wackest shit.

I think the Mysterio/Guerrero match kind of shows why WCW would have better matches than WWE today at times, they didn’t script and go over the matches so fucking hard so sometimes you’d get a really good match where two guys just clicked and whatever moves they wanted to do came out perfectly. By pre-planning everything and scripting everything you kind of lose that.

I remember how terrible Gedo looked in that match and being shocked in recent years seeing he was the Booker man for NJPW now. As Blue Blood Triple H proves, it doesn’t matter where you start, it matters how you finish.

Guerrero/Mysterio is absolutely the best. You see so many spots that guys would try to do after this match, but no one could match their crispness, chemistry and speed. Beautiful, beautiful match.

Why was the cage that tall? That’s like Punjabi Prison tall. That Macho spot was incredibly high risk/low reward.

Brandon kind of no sells the match but DDP vs Savage here was on Savage’s DVD that came out in 2011 and is actually pretty damn good, I’d say its one of Savage’s best matches from that late 90s time period.

“The pinnacle of this ‘icon’ garbage came at last night’s cage match between Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper to determine in their minds only who the real icon is. WCW had the gall to say this is the greatest cage match in history, when it was only the greatest in 3 weeks since Hell In The Cell. But here you’ve got a 46-year old bald movie star wannabe who looks like Uncle Creepy with a good build, taking on a guy with an artificial hip that hasn’t wrestled a full schedule in 10 years. It’s a tribute to the massive egotism, in my mind, of both men, and an indictment of WCW’s promotional policies that this match even took place, much less be in the main event when the card was probably the best that WCW is capable of having. By the 10-minute mark they were sucking wind so bad, the first three rows passed out of oxygen deprivation. Would’ve been funny if it wasn’t so sad. Well I’m sick and damn tired of hearing guys claim to be the icon, especially when it usually comes from guys who just didn’t know when to quit. Roddy Piper was my idol when I was a teenager, but that was 20 years ago. Hulk Hogan during his best years was 50% media creation, and those are long gone. This match was a slap in the face to every wrestler that takes pride in his profession.” -Jim Cornette on the Piper/Hogan cage match, 1997